- BFSIBanking, Financial Services & Insurance
- HealthcareComing soon
- ManufacturingComing soon
- Retail & E-CommerceComing soon
Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode)
Your cloud bill arrives as a spreadsheet of meters. You should know the price before you deploy — Akamai Cloud, formerly Linode, sells virtual machines, GPUs, Kubernetes, managed databases and object storage on a published price list, with Chennai, Mumbai and Mumbai 2 regions billed at the same USD rate as everywhere else.
Buy through TechBag
Same software. Better outcome — at a lower cost.
How it’s rated
Full scoreboard ↓Quick answer
The Akamai platform family
This page covers Akamai Cloud — compute, Kubernetes, databases and object storage. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Public cloud: shared, dedicated and GPU compute, LKE Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Object Storage
- Maker
- Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts; NASDAQ: AKAM; CEO Dr. Tom Leighton
- Lineage
- Formerly Linode, then Akamai Connected Cloud; plans still carry Linode names such as Nanode
- Price
- Published: Nanode 1 GB at $5/month, Dedicated 4 GB at $36/month, hourly up to a monthly cap
- GPU
- RTX 4000 Ada x1 Small at $0.52 an hour; RTX6000 x1 at $1.50 an hour
- Kubernetes
- LKE control plane free; HA control plane $60/month; LKE Enterprise $300/month
- Data
- Managed MySQL and PostgreSQL from $16/month; Object Storage from $5/month with 1 TB transfer
- Transfer
- 1–20 TB bundled on shared plans; overage $0.005 per GB in most regions
- India
- Chennai (in-maa), Mumbai (ap-west) and Mumbai 2 (in-bom-2); no Indian price surcharge
- In India via
- TechBag — region and plan sizing, INR budgeting with GST, migration planning
Understand flat-priced clouds before you buy one
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is a flat-priced public cloud?
A cloud where each plan has a printed monthly price that already includes disk and a bundle of transfer.
A metered hyperscaler bill vs a flat plan list — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | A metered hyperscaler bill | Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing the price | A calculator export per workload | A public plan list with monthly caps |
| Data leaving the cloud | Metered per GB after a small allowance | 1–20 TB bundled; $0.005/GB over |
| Indian region price | Varies by service and region | Base USD rate in all three Indian regions |
| Kubernetes control plane | Charged per cluster-hour | Free; $60/month for HA |
| Managed service range | Hundreds of services | About 15 cloud products |
| What it is NOT | — | A data-warehouse, identity or SaaS-suite cloud |
The cheapest test is one workload: run it on a shared plan in an Indian region for a month and compare the bill line by line.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Regions
Akamai counts 25+ core regions. India has three: Chennai (in-maa), Mumbai (ap-west) and Mumbai 2 (in-bom-2, announced October 2024), all billed at the base USD rate.
Compute
Shared plans start with the $5 Nanode; Dedicated CPU starts at $36 a month for 2 vCPUs; High Memory and Premium tiers sit above, and GPU plans bill by the hour from $0.52.
LKE
A managed Kubernetes control plane that is free as standard, $60 a month with high availability, or $300 a month as LKE Enterprise; worker nodes bill as ordinary plans.
Data
MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters start at $16 a month for one 1 GB node or $37 for three; Object Storage starts at $5 a month with 1 TB of transfer, except in Mumbai 2.
Flat-priced plans in 25+ regions — three of them Indian — with Kubernetes, databases and buckets billed as services of one cloud.
Nine capabilities. Compute, orchestrate, store.
Akamai Cloud prints a monthly price on every plan and charges India the same rate as the US.
Start at five dollars
The Nanode 1 GB gives one vCPU and 25 GB of disk for $5 a month, or $0.0075 an hour if it runs only briefly.
Cores nobody shares
Dedicated plans reserve whole vCPUs for steady loads such as databases and builds, from $36 a month for 2 vCPUs and 4 GB.
Hourly NVIDIA cards
An RTX 4000 Ada small plan bills $0.52 an hour and an RTX6000 $1.50; Chennai and Mumbai 2 both list GPU Linodes.
Kubernetes, control plane free
The standard LKE control plane costs nothing; you pay for worker nodes. Add HA for $60 a month when uptime matters.
A heavier control plane
LKE Enterprise, at $300 a month per cluster, is the tier for teams that need more than the free or HA control plane.
Wasm functions at the edge
Akamai bought Fermyon, a WebAssembly function-as-a-service company, on 1 December 2025; Akamai Functions sits in the catalogue.
Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL
Akamai operates the database for you; a one-node 1 GB cluster is $16 a month and a three-node cluster starts at $37.
Buckets from $5
A $5 monthly base includes 1 TB of transfer. It runs in Chennai, but Mumbai 2 lists no Object Storage at all.
Egress that stays cheap
Shared plans bundle 1 to 20 TB of transfer, and anything beyond costs $0.005 per GB in most regions.
Watch Akamai Cloud in action
Akamai’s current cloud pitch, its case for the platform, and two Indian customers — FreshToHome and Zolvit — on why they moved.
Built for Speed. Shaped for AI: Akamai Cloud
Akamai’s current pitch for the cloud under its new name, with the AI inference story up front.
Why choose Akamai Cloud Computing?
Akamai’s case for its compute platform, recorded during the Connected Cloud period.
FreshToHome, an Omnichannel Innovator, Embraces Akamai Cloud Computing
The Indian grocery platform on why it runs workloads on Akamai’s cloud.
India’s Largest Legal Services Platform Empowers Businesses
Zolvit’s move to Akamai’s cloud, which Akamai says cut its cloud costs by 50%.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Cloud bills grow in meters nobody can read. Akamai Cloud prints the price of every plan.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
A price list you can read before you sign up
Every plan has a public USD price: the Nanode at $5 a month, Dedicated 4 GB at $36, managed MySQL or PostgreSQL from $16, Object Storage from $5, an HA Kubernetes control plane at $60. Billing is hourly up to the monthly figure, so a finance team can budget a workload from the page rather than a calculator.
Three Indian regions at the US price
Chennai, Mumbai and Mumbai 2 are all core regions, and Akamai’s API shows no surcharge for them; only Jakarta and São Paulo carry one. Chennai lists GPUs, Object Storage, Managed Databases, Kubernetes and VPC. Indian customers FreshToHome and Zolvit appear in Akamai’s own case studies.
Egress that does not dominate the bill
Shared plans include 1 to 20 TB of transfer, and the overage rate is $0.005 per GB in most regions. For video, downloads, APIs or anything that sends far more than it receives, that rate is the line most likely to change the comparison with a metered hyperscaler bill.
Where it stops
The catalogue lists about 15 cloud products, not hundreds, so a deep managed analytics, identity or data-warehouse stack lives elsewhere. Mumbai 2 has no Object Storage. Managed Databases cover MySQL and PostgreSQL only. INR prices are not published, and no Indian distributor is verified; budget from USD.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Akamai Cloud migration looks like
List workloads and egress
Inventory the VMs, clusters, databases and buckets to move, with each one’s monthly outbound transfer from the current bill.
Map plans and regions
Match each workload to a shared, dedicated or GPU plan, and pick Chennai, Mumbai or Mumbai 2 by the services each one needs.
Stand up a pilot
Launch one service on LKE or plain Linodes with a managed PostgreSQL cluster, and compare latency from Indian users.
Move data and cut over
Copy databases and buckets, point DNS at the new endpoints, and watch transfer against the bundled allowance for a full cycle.
Right-size and commit
Resize plans from real usage, decide on HA control planes, and set a budget in INR from the USD rates with GST.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our streaming egress was the biggest line on the old bill. At half a cent a GB over the bundle, it stopped being the story.”
“We budgeted the whole Chennai deployment from the public plan list in an afternoon. Finance signed off without a calculator export.”
“LKE with the HA control plane runs our order services. Sixty dollars a month for that is easy to explain upstairs.”
“We planned backups to Object Storage in Mumbai 2 and found it is not offered there. Chennai holds them now.”
“Hourly RTX 4000 Ada boxes let us test an inference model for a week without a reservation or a sales call.”
“Good for compute and Postgres, but we still keep our data warehouse and identity stack on a bigger cloud.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the public cloud market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Cloud Computing Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Public plans; CIS revenue up 39% in Q2 2026.
Pricing Simplicity × Service Breadth
The grid nobody publishes — how readable and egress-friendly the price list is vs how many managed services sit behind it.
Flat plans, $0.005/GB over; about 15 cloud products.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Akamai Cloud vs the clouds Indian teams shortlist
Against AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Vultr — on Indian regions, entry price, egress, Kubernetes, databases, storage and exit.
| Dimension | Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) | Amazon Web Services | Microsoft Azure | Google Cloud | DigitalOcean | Vultr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Flat-priced public cloud | Broadest hyperscaler | Microsoft-estate cloud | Data and AI-led cloud | Developer cloud | Independent IaaS |
| Indian regions | Chennai, Mumbai ×2 | Mumbai, Hyderabad | Four regions in India | Mumbai and Delhi | Bangalore (BLR1) | Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore |
| India price uplift | None | Service by service | Service by service | Check per region | One list price | Same plan price |
| Entry compute price | $5/month | Per instance-hour | Per VM-hour | Per vCPU and GB | $4/month | $5/month in India |
| New-account credit | Not captured | Up to $200, 6 months | $200 for 30 days | $300 plus free usage | Not captured | Not captured |
| Transfer and egress | $0.005/GB over bundle | 100 GB free, then tiers | 100 GB free, then tiers | Not captured | $0.01/GiB over | 2 TB free, $0.01/GB |
| Kubernetes control plane | Free; HA $60/month | $0.10/cluster-hour | Free tier, no SLA | $0.10/hr, one free | Free; HA $40/month | Offered in India |
| Managed databases | MySQL, PostgreSQL | RDS, Aurora and more | SQL, Cosmos DB, Postgres | Cloud SQL, BigQuery | Six engines in BLR1 | Not captured |
| Object storage | $5/month; not Mumbai 2 | S3, metered | Blob Storage, metered | Cloud Storage, metered | Spaces from $5 | Not captured |
| GPU and AI | Hourly GPUs | Broad AI stack | Azure OpenAI | Vertex AI + Gemini | Not captured | Not captured |
| Service breadth | About 15 products | Broadest catalogue | Hundreds of services | Full stack | Core building blocks | Core building blocks |
| Edge and security | Same vendor’s edge | Native security range | Defender and Sentinel | Security Operations | Not captured | DDoS option in India |
| Lock-in and exit | Open engines, cheap exit | Deep managed services | Estate gravity | Data gravity | Standard pieces | Standard pieces |
| Best fit | Egress-heavy Indian apps | The widest catalogue | Microsoft-centred orgs | Analytics and AI-led | Small dev teams | Three-city India spread |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Akamai Cloud if…
- ✓You want to read the price of compute, Kubernetes, databases and storage off a public list rather than a calculator
- ✓Your workload sends far more than it receives, and $0.005 per GB over a 1–20 TB bundle changes the maths
- ✓You want Chennai or Mumbai at the same USD price as the US, and possibly Akamai’s CDN and WAAP from the same vendor
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓You need a deep managed catalogue — data warehouse, identity, many database engines — that AWS, Azure or Google Cloud carry
- ✓You want the lowest possible entry plan or a bigger new-account credit — DigitalOcean starts at $4, Google offers $300
- ✓You need a Delhi or Hyderabad region — Google Cloud, Vultr and AWS run there; Akamai’s Indian regions are south and west
Do not expect…
- ✓Object Storage in Mumbai 2 — Chennai is the Indian region that lists it
- ✓Managed database engines beyond MySQL and PostgreSQL
- ✓Published INR prices, or a verified Indian distributor
TechBag has no cloud computing guide yet, so Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) sits outside the category guides. Browse all products to compare it with the rest of the catalogue. →
What does decoding a metered cloud bill cost you?
Drag the sliders (cloud instances you run; engineer-hour cost). Estimates model engineering time spent decoding metered bills, tracking egress and reconciling invoices at an assumed 1.5 hours per instance a year, with 70% of it removed by flat plans with bundled transfer. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Published in USD: shared compute from $5/month, dedicated from $36/month, GPUs at $0.52 or $1.50 an hour, an HA Kubernetes control plane at $60/month (LKE Enterprise $300), managed MySQL or PostgreSQL from $16/month, Object Storage from $5/month, and extra transfer at $0.005/GB. Indian regions carry no uplift. TechBag sizes the plans, then budgets them in INR with GST.
Compute plans
Best for VMs and GPU work
- Nanode 1 GB at $5/month
- Dedicated 4 GB at $36/month
- GPU from $0.52 an hour
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Managed services
Best for containers and data
- LKE control plane free; HA $60/month
- MySQL or PostgreSQL from $16/month
- Object Storage from $5/month
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Do you need Object Storage? Mumbai 2 does not list it, while Chennai does.
Does every workload fit VMs, Kubernetes, MySQL, PostgreSQL and object storage, or do you need a managed service Akamai lacks?
How many TB a month do you send out? Compare the 1–20 TB bundle and $0.005/GB overage with today’s bill.
Which workloads need dedicated vCPUs at $36 a month and up, and which are fine on shared plans?
Will production clusters need the $60 HA control plane or $300 LKE Enterprise, or is the free one enough?
Which GPU plan fits your models, and is it listed in the Indian region where your data must sit?
Who converts the USD invoice to INR, and how will GST and foreign-exchange swings be budgeted?
Is every component on an open engine, so the same plan can run on another cloud if prices or needs change?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Akamai Cloud?
Model your instances and monthly egress first, or let a TechBag advisor map your workloads to Akamai plans in Chennai or Mumbai.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.